dubious distinction

collocation in English

meaningsofdubiousanddistinction

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dubious
adjective
uk
/ˈdʒuː.bi.əs/us
/ˈduː.bi.əs/
thought not to be completely true or not able to ...
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distinction
noun
uk
/dɪˈstɪŋk.ʃən/us
/dɪˈstɪŋk.ʃən/
a difference between two ...
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(Definition ofdubiousanddistinctionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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My constituency had thedubiousdistinctionof being almost equally threatened by all the inland sites.
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I have thedubiousdistinctionof having secured the biggest defeat of all.
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I had thedubiousdistinctionfor a while of being chairman of a borough youth council.
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At one stage he had thedubiousdistinctionof being my commanding officer.
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That country still has the mostdubiousdistinctionof having the fastest growing population in the world.
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They hold thedubiousdistinctionof accumulating the league's only winless record in 2009.
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Earlier models had thedubiousdistinctionof having an especially high rate of radio theft.
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This is what calls into question thedubiousdistinctionbetween supposedly soft drugs and other drugs, which also applies, of course, to synthetic drugs.
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I, too, have had thedubiousdistinctionof having to look at some of these books in the course of preparing for this debate.
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No other organisation has thedubiousdistinctionof having a special commissioner paid for by the taxpayer with the express purpose of supporting actions against it.
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The river attained thedubiousdistinctionof being the most polluted in the world with regard to dioxins.
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The system has thedubiousdistinctionof holding the record for the world's largest (physical size) computer ever created.
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The family holds thedubiousdistinctionof the most combined starts in the famous race without a victory.
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Starting with the 199091 season, and ending with the 199596 season, the 76ers had thedubiousdistinctionof seeing their win total decrease each year.
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Lochhead has thedubiousdistinctionof sometimes being referred to as the worst regular player on the worst team in history.
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In 1931, he had thedubiousdistinctionof leading the league with 24 losses with a high 5.09 earned run average.
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To earn thisdubiousdistinction, the film must also fail to earn more than the reported cost of its production, distribution, and marketing by a wide margin.
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